Clean URLs with PHP [duplicate]

Answer 1

I am using the following .htaccess file to remove the index.php part of the url.

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Installation directory
RewriteBase /

# Protect hidden files from being viewed

    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny From All


# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !favicon.ico$

RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

Otherwise I can recommend the Kohana framework as a reference (they also have a fairly nice url parser and controller system)